348806 - Time zone changes from New York to Nassau when exporting calendar to iCal

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[Jonas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060507 Mozilla Sunbird/0.3a2

When a Sunbird calendar is exported to iCal with the time zone America/New_York, it appears in iCal with the time zone America/Nassau.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create calendar events in Sunbird, with America/New_York as the time zone.
2. Export calendar in iCalendar format.
3. Import the new calendar into iCal.
4. Check the time zone (in iCal).
Actual Results:  
Time zone will read America/Nassau.

Expected Results:  
Time zone should read America/New York.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

What timezone do you have configured in Sunbird? 
If no timezone is configured Sunbird tries to guess what your local timezone is. This timezone is than used for events.

Comment 2

[Jonas]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What timezone do you have configured in Sunbird? 
> If no timezone is configured Sunbird tries to guess what your local timezone
> is. This timezone is than used for events.
> 

Please note that I said "When a Sunbird calendar is exported to iCal with the time zone
America/New_York".  The time zone is America/New_York, as stated.

Comment 3

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Using Sunbird 0.3a2+ (20060826) on Windows 2000: My system timezone is Europe/Berlin. In Sunbird Preferences->Timezone is set to America/New_York. I created events and exported that events to iCalendar file. Opening that file in a text editor shows that the events were correctly exported with America/New_York timezone. --> WORKSFORME

Please check content of ics files you created in text editor. If content is correct and the iCal application shows the wrong timezone after import of the ics files: Blame iCal not Sunbird.

Comment 4

[cmtalbert]

> a text editor shows that the events were correctly exported with
> America/New_York timezone. --> WORKSFORME
Tried these steps on a Mac using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061116 Calendar/0.4a1 (updated and built myself). I'm running OS X 10.4.8. I verified that the exported ICS from Sunbird correctly stated America/New York as the timezone. 

Upon importing these into iCal.app version 2.0.4 (1055) the events were imported as "Floating Time". This essentially means that iCal.app chose to disregard the specified timezone in the ICS file completely. So, I'm inclined to think this might be a problem in iCal.app. Reporter, what version of iCal.app were you using?

Reporter, if you can show us that Sunbird is indeed exporting incorrect ICS files, please post a comment in this bug (and attach the incorrect ICS file). In the meantime, I am transitioning this bug to "Works For Me" and removing the qawanted flag.